#SFHH2612111AFrance sets 2026-2027 specialist training places for practicing doctors
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This order sets how many practicing doctors may enter France’s third cycle of medical studies in 2026-2027 to pursue a specialist diploma, option, or cross-specialty training. The places are allocated by medical specialty and by regional subdivision. The practical effect is a cap on access routes for doctors already in practice who want to retrain, specialize further, or add a recognized specialty track. Universities, teaching hospitals, health agencies, and doctors planning career changes will need to work within these published numbers.
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Key Changes
- Sets 2026-2027 quotas for practicing doctors entering specialist medical training
- Allocates places by specialty and regional subdivision
- Creates planning limits for doctors, universities, teaching hospitals, and health authorities
Obligations
What this law requires
For the 2026-2027 academic year, access by practicing doctors to the third cycle of medical studies for a specialist diploma must be limited to the number of places allocated by specialty and by regional subdivision in Annex I of the order.
Admission authorities must apply the published subdivision-level caps when allocating places to practicing doctors seeking a diplôme d'études spécialisées, including the listed specialties such as general medicine, psychiatry, pediatrics, emergency medicine, occupational health, geriatrics, and anesthesia-resuscitation.
Practicing doctors seeking access to third-cycle medical studies in 2026-2027 may only be admitted within the specialty and subdivision quotas fixed by the order; no entitlement to admission exists beyond those published numbers.
Practicing doctors seeking cross-specialty training or an option in 2026-2027 must apply only within the places made available for the relevant training track and subdivision in Annex II.
For the 2026-2027 academic year, universities and competent medical training authorities must limit access by practicing doctors to cross-specialty training or options to the number of places allocated for each training track and subdivision in Annex II.